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Interesting display of putative storage snapshots - Bug?

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Hello,

in our Environment we use a NetApp as Fileserver. A snapmirror is realised by using a 2nd NetApp. So a volume of NetApp A correspondents with a volume of NetApp B and periodically a Storage Snapshot of multiple volumes from A is moved to B. This is all triggered and managed by Veeam.
So we keep over 30 Storage Snapshots on every NetApp.

Yesterday i saw an interesting behaviour. Using VCenter i did a storage migration of a VM from datastore1 to datastore2. Both datastores are individual volumes of the NetApp and part of the snapmirror.
VM was moved to datastore2 and snapmirror was running. immediately Veeam was showing more then 30 snapshot-restorepoints of this VM on new datastore, which should not be possible, we moved just a few minuets ago. Most of the snapshots were made hours/days before VM was moved to this datastore.
We did an instant recovery to test restorability of this VM using an older snapshot and this failed like expected:
26.08.2025 11:40:15 Error Failed to publish MyVM_restore Error: Unable to find VM files on storage snapshot, try to perform storage rescan

So i think the Bug is on Veeam Side. Veeam is displaying all snapshots of this datastore, regardless if VM really was existent at all this points in time.
What do you think?

Thanks,
Hans
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Re: Interesting display of putative storage snapshots - Bug?

Post by Mildur »

Hi Hans

I strongly recommend to open a case with our customer support team to confirm whether its a bug or not, as we cannot do technical troubleshooting through this forum. Please share the case number with us.

Thank you very much,
Fabian
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